Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat
Less than a week after his cabinet was sworn into office, the premier was slapped with charges he violated the constitution by holding shares in a telecoms company _ CS Loxinfo _ that does business with state-owned CAT Telecom. If the share ownership is proved, it does not matter whether the premier has declared the shares publicly. Mr Somchai said the justice system should proceed, then refused to discuss the case. Filing the case was Sen Ruangkrai Leekijwattana, who also filed the charges that brought down ex-premier Samak Sundaravej for the constitutional violation of hosting a TV cooking show.
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PTT
Oil prices have been at their highest point since the death of the last stegosaurus. Worldwide, oil companies have made unheard-of profits. Royal Dutch Shell made $11.6 billion in three months. Exxon Mobil made $39.5 billion in the past year. Saudi Arabia made $1 billion a day, which is quite a lot of money. But while you were paying 40 to 45 baht for a litre of fuel, state-linked conglomerate PTT lost money on those pump operations _ five billion baht for the year, figures president and CEO Prasert Bunsumpun, around 60 per cent up on last year's service station losses of 2.9 billion baht. ''Not much,'' he called it. Well, okay.
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Bali bombers
Ali Ghufron, Imam Samudra and the ''smiling assassin'' Amrozi Nurhasyim celebrated what is probably their final Eid al-Fitr at the maximum security prison on Nusakambangan Island. Authorities said in August they would wait until after Ramadan to carry out their executions for the Oct 12, 2002 murders of 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians and 76 other people from around the world. Prison officials allowed newsmen to cover the Muslim festival at the prison. After prayers, Samudra and Ghufron pointed at US and Australian journalists and said: ''Number one enemy''.
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